Hi there! Thanks for the indepth thoughts and links.
A quick question to help me reflect on the 2 cultures and what you have written above: you distinguish positions and roles. Where/when do positions come in?
For example, in another conversation, you were talking about “financial resources available (for a position) to facilitate / coordinate the formation of a group to work on this, animate some activities, set up tools and processes for open collaboration”.
The case where we do have funding for a while to fund a community lead/chair, especially for a nascent community, exploring a new topic for the IOPA, is is a situation that arises regularly (thank you fundraising task force!). 2 such positions are actually about to be sent out via the newsletter this week.
The role descriptions in the pub this conversation is about do refer to roles that are not funded, because they’ve entered a phase where the sustainability of the work is volunteer-driven, so maybe that’s the distinction?